Our WikiLeaks Coverage

WikiLeaks has released its latest trove of classified documents, which provide information on more than seven hundred and fifty of the seven hundred and seventy-nine prisoners who have passed through Guantánamo Bay prison. Amy Davidson writes about what the documents reveal and the questions they prompt: what is the purpose of Guantánamo, and why didn’t Obama declassify these documents himself?

And before Muammar Qaddafi was in the news for attacking the Libyans protesting his rule, he made headlines for his portrayal in diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks (dependent on his “voluptuous blonde” nurse; “just strange”); Lizzie Widdicombe has more on that.

For a review of the WikiLeaks news that has unfolded over the last year—sex allegations, Bradley Manning, media feuding, and more—visit Davidson’s continuing coverage.

Digitally altered photograph by Phillip Toledano.

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